The Aesop for Children, The Frogs Who Wished For a King, sentence 8

In a short time the younger Frogs were using him for a diving platform, while the older Frogs made him a meeting place, where they complained loudly to Jupiter about the government.

Who acts: younger Frogs, older Frogs, Frogs · What happens: use, make, complain · To what, where: king, meeting place, Jupiter

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Frogs Who Wished For a King. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (younger Frogs, older Frogs, Frogs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	4 time	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 time	det
3	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 time	amod
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 using	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Frogs	det
6	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 Frogs	amod
7	Frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 using	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 using	aux
9	using	use	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 using	obj
11	for	for	ADP	_	14 platform	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 platform	det
13	diving	diving	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 platform	compound
14	platform	platform	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 using	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 made	punct
16	while	while	SCONJ	_	20 made	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Frogs	det
18	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 Frogs	amod
19	Frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 made	nsubj
20	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 using	conj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 made	obj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 place	det
23	meeting	meeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 place	compound
24	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 made	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 complained	punct
26	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	28 complained	advmod
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 complained	nsubj
28	complained	complain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 place	acl:relcl
29	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	28 complained	advmod
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 Jupiter	case
31	Jupiter	Jupiter	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 complained	obl
32	about	about	ADP	_	34 government	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 government	det
34	government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 complained	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 using	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	use	past · progressive	the younger Frogs	king		time	for a diving platform	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent he=Theme for platform=Eventuality
2	make	past	the older Frogs	a meeting place	king			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary place=Product
3	complain speech: other	past	Frogs = frog		Jupiter		about the government; loudly property	vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.topic PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to jupiter=Recipient about government=Topic

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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